The Commercialization of the Home through Industrial Home Work was published by the United States Department of Labor Women's Bureau in 1935. This resource contains statistical information and legislative reports. You can access Commercialization of the Home online via Harvard's Mirador Viewer.

Common Sense for Housemaids was published in 1853, contributed to "a lady." It contains practical advice for housemaids on topics ranging from how to clean brass, bug poison, and lighting fires to hints on how to dress and nurse the sick.

This book was published in 1892 and written by Catherine Moss of London. It is available on microfilm at Schlesinger Library.

Written by noted author and speaker Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Home is a book about women and domesticity published in 1910. In it, Gilman advocates for women's economic independence as an avenue towards the improvement of marriage and domestic work. The Schlesinger Library holds two major Gilman manuscript collections: Papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1846-ca.1975 and Papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935. In addition to correspondence and diaries, these collections include copies of Gilman’s lectures and articles written on similar topics, including shared kitchens. For more information, please visit the Charlotte Perkins Gilman subject guide.

This resource was published as part of the Finchley Manuals of Industry in 1862.

This short bulletin was published by the United States Department of Labor's Wage and Labor Standard Administration Women's Bureau in 1969. It contains statistics and analyses on wages (as well as payment and collection), hours of work, unemployment compensation, and social security. You can access Labor Laws Affecting Private Household Workers online via HathiTrust.

This guide was written by Helen Bartlett, the etiquette editor of the Chicago Tribune, and was published in the early 1950s. It focuses on the role of women household employees and their role in housekeeping.

This item contains the proceedings of a conference on the national longitudinal surveys of mature women from the United States Department of Labor. It was sponsored by the National Commission for Manpower Policy in cooperation with the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, and was published in 1978.